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What are you listening to? Part III
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Coldplay - (A Rush Of Blood To The Head) - Clocks.
Loved it, loved it, loved it.
Still love it.
Sigh.
That is what I consider an excellent, hilarious, bitter-sweet, intelligent, multi-layered, beautifully shot and scripted, exquisitely acted (by a superb cast), sophisticated movie. And what a soundtrack.
Slow blues... from an early construction of Fleetwood Mac: Peter Green’s memorable cover of Dustin Bennett’s Jumpin’ at Shadows, the live 1970 performance. Wait for that solo at around the 3-minute mark. Hear it once, hang onto it forever...
Romeo and Juliet - The Montagues and Capulets - by Sergei Prokofiev.
Harpsichord Solo: My Lady Carey's Dompe - David Munrow: Early Music Consort Of London - Henry VIII And His Six Wives.
Taking some older playlists out for a spin.. this one was constructed in 2009 but not just with respect to that year or a particular theme. It is really long, maybe 130 tracks, probably not so much a playlist as one of the "loader" lists I make up once in awhile to refresh one of the 2nd gen nanos I still use in the car with an FM transmitter to its radio.
The Yardbirds "train kept a rollin'", the Doors "Backdoor man" and Foreigner's "Star Rider" were on my list this morning during my commute.
Ah: I have always liked The Yardbirds.
A song I especially like, and an excellent album.
I'm having fun this morning. Replaced my iPad mini 2 with an iPad Mini 4 (as a reluctant insurance policy against the failure of the rumored 2019 refresh of that product line or maybe of that product line ever). So today I fired up my all-classical library to load up some playlists to accompany the reading of books, which is mostly what I do with that size tablet.
Haven't listened to Haydn's lovely Andante and Variations in F minor (Hob 17:6) in a long while so that was first out the gate. The performance I'm listening to is Pletnev's, included in an album of some other Haydn piano works.
Like many recordings of the F minor variations, it's on just one track as the variations are brief. But Pletnev takes it fast enough that when I first glanced at the track I couldn't believe it was the entire work.
Eight minutes and out the door... most deliver it in more like 14 minutes, not least because the last few variations have very fast tempo markings. Not sure how Pletnev manages this, he must drop back some from his opening tempo for the theme somewhere along the way; I keep meaning to get all analytical about it sometime to figure that out. I never do it though. The music just draws me in.
Gee this iPad mini 4 has 128 GB on it so there's room for entire operas if I feel like fishing some of them out too. I sometimes used Home Sharing on my old iPad mini, but I prefer having downloaded music on a tablet even at home, so I don't have to remember to leave a laptop up and running one of my iTunes libraries as a music server. It's convenient once in awhile to use that sharing feature but I'm still a huge fan of the self-contained portable library, especially since the mini iPad fits in a handbag. In my lifetime there was a long era when all one could carry of music performance in a handbag was the programme from some live recital...
Haven't listened to Haydn's lovely Andante and Variations in F minor (Hob 17:6) in a long while so that was first out the gate. The performance I'm listening to is Pletnev's, included in an album of some other Haydn piano works.
Like many recordings of the F minor variations, it's on just one track as the variations are brief. But Pletnev takes it fast enough that when I first glanced at the track I couldn't believe it was the entire work.
Eight minutes and out the door... most deliver it in more like 14 minutes, not least because the last few variations have very fast tempo markings. Not sure how Pletnev manages this, he must drop back some from his opening tempo for the theme somewhere along the way; I keep meaning to get all analytical about it sometime to figure that out. I never do it though. The music just draws me in.Gee this iPad mini 4 has 128 GB on it so there's room for entire operas if I feel like fishing some of them out too. I sometimes used Home Sharing on my old iPad mini, but I prefer having downloaded music on a tablet even at home, so I don't have to remember to leave a laptop up and running one of my iTunes libraries as a music server. It's convenient once in awhile to use that sharing feature but I'm still a huge fan of the self-contained portable library, especially since the mini iPad fits in a handbag. In my lifetime there was a long era when all one could carry of music performance in a handbag was the programme from some live recital...